•Vladimir Putin arrived in Austria, looking to capitalize on the E.U.’s fury with President Trump over America’s withdrawal from the Iran deal, as well as for imposing tariffs on the bloc. Above, Mr. Putin with Austria’s president, Alexander Van der Bellen, in Vienna.

His goals of shedding European sanctions and regaining respectability suddenly seem within reach, highlighted by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte of Italy, who outlined his new populist government’s vision for overhauling the country’s migration system, renegotiating its relationship with Europe and moving closer to Russia.

•The venue is booked for the June 12 meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong-un of North Korea. The White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, wrote on Twitter that it would be held at Singapore’s Capella Hotel, above, a five-star establishment on a resort island.

Our Beijing bureau chief visited the China-North Korea border and found excitement growing over the prospect of a deal between the U.S. and the North. The lifting of sanctions could hand China a new realm of dominance.

And back in the U.S., an American veteran who once worked as an intelligence analyst for the Pentagon was charged with spying for China. Ron Rockwell Hansen of Syracuse, Utah, was arrested in an F.B.I. sting operation at the airport in Seattle, after a yearslong investigation.

Nearly all of the team’s players and coaches had planned to boycott the visit, in part because of Mr. Trump’s repeated demands that N.F.L. players stop kneeling during the national anthem at games, a gesture meant to protest racism and police violence.

And a secret memo we obtained includes his lawyers’ stark private acknowledgment of something his team publicly and repeatedly denied: that Mr. Trump had dictated a misleading statement about his son’s meeting with a Russian lawyer.

• Britain will allow 21st Century Fox to bid for the satellite broadcaster Sky — in some ways setting up a bigger battle: one between Comcast and Walt Disney over control of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.

D-Day is a general term used for the start of any military campaign, and is used when the exact date of an operation is secret or not yet known. Similarly, H-Hour is a term used to describe a yet-to-be-determined time. These alliterative phrases go back at least as far as World War I, and helped keep actual mission dates out of enemy hands.

“The relatively calm water was churned by wave after wave of ships,” according to one Times account from Normandy, “some large enough to cast their eerie shadows in the early morning glow and others darting through like so many water-bugs.”

Remy Tumin wrote today’s Back Story.

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